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A clearer explanation of elected mayors gets my vote

On 3 May, along with nine other English cities, Bristol will be holding a referendum ...

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

Just build some bloody council houses!

A government that combines drastic benefit cuts and reducing public housing stock with a massive ...

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The Bristol Pound won’t save our town centre

Bristol is to launch its own currency in May, imaginatively named the Bristol Pound or ...

Communities Good Local Economics

This is welfare abolition, not welfare reform

When Cameron says he wants to cut the benefits bill by £18bn he’s pointing directly ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Whitehall rigidity and the failure of the Big Society ‘project’

So far the Big Society seems to mean ‘You’re all in this together’: it’s about ...

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Interns are banned but forced labour is DWP policy

Why does the government regard graduates seeking a leg-up in a potentially lucrative career worthy ...

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

Shapps’ fiddling won’t solve the real crisis

Just where are these areas of underemployment and high council house numbers that people can ...

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Why we should worry about electoral reform

I think we should be worrying our little heads a great deal over the potential ...

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The age of nihilistic selfishness

When an individual realises that the rules we’re instructed to live by don’t actually exist ...

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The incidental delegate

The chance to be enthused, energised and educated by CLES chief exec Neil McInroy again ...